Moving on Up!

Change isn't always a good thing, but in the case I'm about to tell you about it is. This past week due to some issues with our "friends" on the first floor, we thought it was best to move Loki's bedroom to the back of the house near Lex's. This meant that we had to do some serious rearranging.

Mad Dog and I took Tuesday to clean out Loki's room into the living room and the kitchen. No small task, but sadly the smaller of the two tasks at hand. We still had to move our room into Loki's old room once cleared out. Now like most parents our room is the catch all for anything that doesn't have a home and even some stuff that does have a home. Needless to say we were not looking forward to the move.

Along with all Loki's stuff we had to move out Gabrielle's bed and "The Stuff Animal" collection. All this moved into our kitchen, making lunchtime impossible. Once cleared out we started the movement of our furniture and "junk" into our new room. In the process we donated clothing, books and even got ride of some stuff that some of us were just holding on to for no reason (and some wrong reasons). We reorganized our books, DVDs and clippings (both Mad Dog and I have huge collections of stuff we pull from Magazines - I will admit mine is bigger than his). 

To make a long story short we managed to move and set up both rooms  by Tuesday night bedtime, finding that they were a much better fit. Issues: we lost our satellite hook-up in the process since we didn't have any rooms except the front living room our bedroom wired (thank you first floor!). Mad Dog and I have had to readjust to having our bedroom away from the laundry room, but it's been a small adjustment.

Loki on the other hand has had no issues. She slept well the first night and has ever since the move. She is enjoying her new surroundings and finding live in her new big girl's room is just fine. Lex's still wants to know why his room hasn't moved, but he'll get over it.

In the next few months there will be additional changes. We will be cleaning out some of "The Stuffed Animal" collection, going through the closet in what is now our bedroom and possibly painting the old bookcases which are currently in Loki's room to give them a new live.

So Long, Farewell

For the past 2 ½ years Lucretia Avenue has been our home, more importantly our first home. We say good-bye to it fondly and take with us the many memories it has held. I would like to share some of those here now:

July 2005 - Moving in…and crying over a missing bathrobe.

July 2005 - Miss G's pink ...too pink bedroom.

August 2005 - Miss G turns 5.

Sept 2005 - My first time at the Big E.

Oct 2005 - Our first (and only) Halloween Party here.

Dec 2005 - Mad Dog asks me to marry him in our living room after a 4 hour ordeal to find a Christmas Tree that didn't cost us $50.00 in Western, MA ( yes in Western, MA!). He gave me 2 rings- my diamond and my Banana Splits Ring he found on Ebay.

Dec 2005 - Our first Christmas morning with Miss G.

New Years Eve Day 2005/2006 - In Boston with Mad Dog & Kevin for Dim Sum, Ice Sculptures & to tell our engagement news to friends.

Feb 2006 - We lost Phantom (who couldn't control his drool), he pasted in his sleep.

Feb 2006 - I found my place at Barnes & Noble in Enfield, and stopped my horrible commute across the state.

June 2006 - Miss G goes away to WI, for much more than a vacation.

July 2006 - We find out we're pregnant, with our first child. This is happy news - too bad all

August 2006 - We tell our families, and the baby shopping begins for Nana Sandy.

Oct 2006 - those days of "morning" sickness isn't.The transformation of the Media Room into Little Man's bedroom.

Nov 2006 - The many nights of Most Haunted spent on the couch until Mike got home.

Dec 2006 - Miss G returns for Christmas.

Jan 2007 - Impulse gets sick.

Feb 2007 - The first false alarm. No baby, not yet.

Feb 2007 - Little Man is born, 2 weeks early and we would still have time to go to New York Comic-Con (Mad Dog's wishful thinking).

Feb 2007 - My Mom visits our apartment for the 2nd time in 2 years.

April 2007 - Impulse passes away with Little Man and me by his side. Lots of tears and sadness.

May 2007 - Miss G comes home for Easter and meets Little Man for the first time.

June 2007 - Miss G comes for the summer, full of video games, reading, High School Musical 2 and new friends.

August 2007 - I get my new job at Covidien.

August 2007 - Mad Dog and I get married.

Sept 2007 - Little Man finds out he can roll and chases Spirit (our cat) around the bed.

Sept 2007 - Mad Dog, Little Man and I go to Baltimore for Comic-Con. Little Man rocked the Con and is looking forward to next year.

Sept 2007 - We find our new home on Beacon Street.

Oct 2007 - We move!

Movin' Right Along

Movin' right along in search of good times and good news,
With good friends, you can't lose,
This could become a habit.
Opportunity knocked once, let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it.

If you don't know where that's from there really is no hope for you! Just kidding - but you do need to re-exam your childhood. Its official we're moving to Worcester, MA. Can't believe it myself - Looks like in the next 10 years we might manage to get back to Mansfield somehow. No joking we found a place and it's not exactly where we wanted to be, but it is what we were looking for and for the right price.

I'm not looking forward to the rest of our packing, however I am looking forward to making the new place ours. I have a terrible habit when I go into people's home that I try to make it mine in my head - how would I change it and how would our stuff fit. The only house I can't do this with is my Mom's. I can't imagine ever making that mine.

Our current home is full of boxes and we're slowly packing, but at least we're started. I feel good about that and horribly sad at the same time. This was mine and Mad Dog's first home together. And the place we brought Little Man home too. I'm going to miss it. I wish I had taken more pictures of the place and had more people out. It's a great place and I'm going to miss # 10, but at least we have all our memories and it's love.

It Only Happens When it Rains

I knew that things were going to well for things to continue on course. Since coming back from our "honeymoon" we have had car issues. I shouldn't say issues. It's one issue. It's dead. We'll it runs, but the transmission is shot and would cost $1,800.00 to fix. Things is there is only $2,163.00 left on it. Mad Dog was optimistic and thought we should try to pull the money together and get it fixed, but I don't think so. Seeing no sooner then we put the money into it, it will die a week later for good.

This is the worst time in the world for this all to happen. We need to find a place in 2 weeks and move - with no second car and the issues with the car this is a big issue. Mad Dog's Father has decided to help us out. They are paying off the car for us, so we can make smaller payments to them. Then we're going to try for another car. Don't know how that will go with my credit, but we have to.

On a good note (afraid to write this, in case I jinx it) we found a place this weekend. It's in Worcester - 3 bedroom on the 2nd floor. Mad Dog hasn't seen it yet. He's going on my word that it'll work (fingers-crossed). We have to fill out the application and I'll drop it off Tuesday - guy seems positive about the whole thing. We're going to have to figure out moving, but packing is in full swing in our house. We just need to get rid of some stuff (a lot of stuff).

I'm going to try not to hold my breath about the whole thing and hope for the best on all fronts.

New Places on the Horizon

It feels like so many things are changing so quickly. Mad Dog says I'm trying to achieve this ultimate stress quad-fecta (Giving Birth, New Job, Marriage and Moving) all at once. Maybe I am without knowing it. With the birth of Little Man I check off the first of the four back in February. Now, I'm I have completed the second with obtaining a new job. I gave my two weeks notice from my current employer today, there was very little reaction to the news (at least from management). I'm going to miss the staff more than anything and even more so with the possibility of future move coming on the heels of me leaving. In about 24 days I'm getting married to Mad Dog - strike number 3. And to put the last nail in my coffin we will be looking to move to Eastern Massachusetts in the next few months.

I feel sorry about moving. I like where we are. It's not the big city, but I like the area and will miss it. Though I'm planning on coming back to visit, because there are friends (and more friends)here I would like to keep. We'll have to find a new Doctor for Little Man, which is really a bummer because I love his Doctor.

Having said that- getting back to the eastern part of the state great too. We'll have Boston no more than 45 minutes away, which means Dim Sum more often, hanging with my friends more, visiting the MFA with Little Man and being near my family.

We're going to take this step by step. Still have to complete # 2 & #3 before even thinking about #4. No matter what we'll do it as a family.